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Zahrah

#7,121 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Zahra

Zahrah has been given to 411 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,121 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Zahrah, 2025

1 in 207,000

Zahrah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zahrah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Zahra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zahrah means

Zahrah is a alternate transcription of Zahra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Zahrah is a alternate transcription of Zahra. Zahra has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zahra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 411 girls were recorded with the name Zahrah between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,301 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,105 in 2020 to #7,121 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,128 in 2015 to #7,121 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Zahrah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,121
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zahrah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahrah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zahrahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahrah was born before 2011 — so the typical Zahrah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
411
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2000s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Zahrah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,686
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,984
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,007
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.0%
Peak was 2022 (25)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,301
2022

Spellings of Zahrah

Zahrah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 91.0% against Zahrah's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Zahrah is used

Across 1910–2025, Zahrah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,592,652 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zahrah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zahrah around the world

Where Zahrah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • Canada
    2002–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1985–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zahrah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,121
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,984
Best rank ever
#5,301
2022
Peak year
2022
25 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
411
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Zahrah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zahrah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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